Bug 390423 - [github] Search repositories by user name
Summary: [github] Search repositories by user name
Status: NEW
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Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: GitHub (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2012-09-26 05:57 EDT by Kaloyan Raev CLA
Modified: 2016-09-13 19:34 EDT (History)
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Description Kaloyan Raev CLA 2012-09-26 05:57:20 EDT 
I am using version 2.0.0 of the Eclipse Mylyn to GitHub connector. 

When I go to Clone Git Repository > GitHub I am prompted by the wizard to search for the repo I want to clone. Unfortunately, the input I provide seems to be used for searching only in the name of the GitHub repos, but not in the name of the GitHub users. 

Usually, I don't remember the name of my repos, but I can easily spot the needed one if I am presented with a list of all my repos. Therefore, I would like to type my user name and after clicking the "Search" button to see a list of all my repos. This is actually what I do in the command line widget when I am in the Github web site. In Eclipse, this approach gives me "Found 0 repository". 

I can, of course, go to the web site and find the exact name of my repo and then give as in input in the Eclipse wizard, but then this makes this wizard useless, because I can easily clone the repo by URL if I have already visited it on the web site. 

Trying to find my repo by giving keywords in the Eclipse GitHub wizard is not always an easy tasks - because the returned result list is generated from the whole jungle of repos on GitHub. 

In short, my proposal is to make it possible to search for repos by user name.